Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

344 c   (CRIME) Massive Police Department album containing 82 photographs relating to local toughs in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia, comprising 50 mugshot diptychs and 32 standing mug shots. Including alleged drug sellers, burglars, extortionists, robbers, rackets, blackmailers, and those impersonating policemen. Silver prints, the images measuring 3x5 1 / 4 to 6x9 inches (7.6x13.3 to 15.2x22.9 cm.), the mounts 16 3 / 4 x13 inches (42.5x33 cm.), mounted recto/ verso, each with a handwritten caption below the photograph. Thick elephant folio, 1 / 4 leather, cloth. 1933-36   [1,500/2,500] In the iconography of mug shots, photographs in which alleged con men and crafty criminals are standing are uncommon, and capture the “film noir” nature of police department imagery. 344 345 c   (UNITED STATES INDUSTRIAL REFORMATORY) Archive with over 110 photographs documenting the cellblock construction, onsite hospital, and the various occupations undertaken by the inmate workforce at the U.S. Industrial Reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio. Including views of the reformatory infrastructure such as the veterans hospital with scenes of the operating room and rehab, kitchens and dining hall, automotive garage, paint shop, metal shop, and prison school. As well as images depicting the administrative buildings, detention center, cellblocks, and watchtowers; and the reformatory farm, complete with various livestock, a piggery, milking barn, and large grainery. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 4x5 inches (10.2x12.7 cm.), and slightly larger, and the reverse, many with notations and/or dates, in pencil or ink, or typed, on verso. 1931-36 [1,500/2,500] 345